Return to Inner Mercy

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville's cadence: You do not seek God outside history; you awaken to God as the I AM right where you stand. The cry in the psalm—return, how long—becomes your turning of attention back to the consciousness that never left you. Mercy is not earned; mercy is a state you assume. Satisfy us early with thy mercy becomes: feel that mercy as the first sensation of now, a warm confirmation that you are beloved, whole, and sufficient. Joy and gladness come not from changing outer events but from recognizing that the events unfold by your inner constancy. Make us glad according to the days of affliction: you reinterpret pain as the foil that makes your deeper beauty more evident; the years of evil are memory-forming. Let thy work appear unto thy servants: imagine your inner acts revealed as deeds in the visible world; let the beauty of the LORD rest upon you and your hands establish their work. This is the established order of consciousness: God’s glory is your ongoing experience when you dwell as the I AM.